English Speaking Board

LEVEL 3 CERTIFICATE IN SPEECH

Course Content

This course is a speaking and listening activity that gives students the opportunity to achieve an internationally recognised qualification along with 24, 27 or 30 UCAS points depending on grading. There are three main gradings – Pass, Merit and Distinction with sub gradings for each of these. This is classed as Grade 8 in Speech and Drama in UCAS.

The course allows learners to demonstrate their oracy skills at an advanced level. The four sections of the qualification are: presenting, reviewing a newspaper article, giving a literary recommendation, and discussion skills. It provides excellent opportunities to support academic learning and enrichment, promoting confidence and developing learners’ speaking, reading, listening and responding skills.
Students prepare and present three different tasks and presentations in front of an external assessor in school and the other students who they have chosen to work with. This will tend to be groups of 6/7 who are in the assessment for about 3 hours - each student is presenting for about 25 minutes in total, with one task led as a group discussion. The examiner is an observer for most of the assessment; they are generally not part of the activities.

This is a one year course which is taught and examined in Year 12. Students will have 1 taught session per week throughout the year to prepare for the final assessment.